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Dreamcast review: Redux: Dark Matters
Sega held onto the Dreamcast for as long as it could, selling limited run games on its website well after the console's death in 2001. Still, Sonic's house gave up the ghost eventually. Enter publisher Hucast and designer René Hellwig, who just can't let it go. It's 2014 and they're still putting out brand new Dreamcast games like Redux: Dark Matters. A side-scrolling shooter made in the grand old style, Redux is very much of a piece with the hardcore arcade games typical of the Dreamcast. While it won't win the old machine any new acolytes, it handily demonstrates why the faithful remain, a demanding exercise in twitch reflexes painted in bold colors. Like its 2009 predecessor, Dux, Redux feels at home in the Dreamcast library. The two-dimensional shooter has you flying a spaceship from left to right, shooting other spaceships while collecting new weapons and trying not to blow up – it's precisely the sort of arcade-style game that defined Sega's last console. It's easy to pick up and play, difficult to master, and bears an unusually soft visual style. Dux and Redux both feature opening levels whose color palettes actually call the Dreamcast itself to mind, with muted, grey industrial walls and a tiny, blood-orange, triangular ship. It's like you're piloting the console's power light straight into its guts.
Dreamcast's Redux: Dark Matters looks to 3DS, Wii U eShops
Crowdfunded arcade-style shoot-'em-up Redux: Dark Matters could follow up on its recent Sega Dreamcast launch with an appearance on the Wii U and 3DS eShops, developer René Hellwig told Nintendo Life this week. "Since we developed the game on PC with HD graphics it will be easy for us to port the game to Nintendo consoles," Hellwig explained. "Nintendo is more straightforward with Indie devs, and we believe that in the coming years Nintendo consoles will be a great place to publish Indie games." Redux: Dark Matters is slated to hit Steam and iOS devices this year. Fellow Dreamcast devotee developer NG.DEV.TEAM turned to Indiegogo to drum up support for 3DS and Wii U ports of its run-and-gun platformer Gunlord last year, but failed to meet its funding goal.
Sega Dreamcast space shooter Redux: Dark Matters out now
Make room for your Sega Dreamcast right next to those shiny new consoles, everyone – Redux: Dark Matters is available now. After raising $53,000 on Kickstarter in 2012, the Sega Dreamcast version of Redux: Dark Matters has begun shipping, priced at €36 (excluding shipping costs). Redux: Dark Matters is an HD space shmup with seven stages, big bosses, arcade-style gameplay and a "competitive" scoring system. Check out every angle of the game – seriously, there are 75 screens – in the gallery below.
Indie shmup Redux succeeds on Kickstarter, adds plans for Vita and 3DS
How much interest is there in an indie Dreamcast shooter? At least $41,983 – that's how much developer ReduxGame has raised on Kickstarter for the Dreamcast (and iOS/PC) shooter Redux: Dark Matters. The team crossed the $40,000 goal for its drive, making it one of only two console game projects to succeed on the platform (the other is Star Castle for Atari 2600) and prompting the team to make additional goals, like two-player support and a new stage for $60K worth of backing.According to an email we received from the team, the plans for platforms have been altered since we last reported on this labor of love. "Sega Dreamcast, iOS and STEAM/PC are already set in stone and will be released this year, the team notes, and it is "actively working" to get Redux on PSN, XBLA, Vita, and 3DS.
